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of Nature's library ; nor yet is it the 

 narrow pride of the spread-eagle 

 orator alone that awards to the 

 Grand Canyon and the Yosemite 

 and the Big Trees first place among 

 the wonder scenes of the earth. 



Luray Cave, in Virginia, and the 

 Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, sur- 

 pass in originality and grandeur 

 any caves in Europe, while Niagara 

 Falls has no rival in Europe or in 

 Asia, and our American forests are 

 the glory of the world. 



Man goes to Asia and to Africa 

 to study forgotten civilizations, 

 when the Redskins upon our own 

 Western plains and in our own cliff 

 dwellings reveal stories of the past 

 as strange as any we know, and 

 constitute a race more magnificent 

 in physique than any that can be 

 found in other parts of the world. 

 When one comes to examine the 

 literature of America for the tour- 

 ist, one is amazed at the contrast 

 between that literature and what he 

 finds from other countries. Baede- 

 ker publishes a guide-book iri three 

 volumes to tell about Italy, and one 

 volume to tell about the United 

 States and Mexico. One can find 

 more literature about the geysers of 

 New Zealand than about those of 

 the Yellowstone (though the Yel- 

 lowstone contains more geysers 

 than all the rest of the world) ; 

 more about the troglodytes of 

 northern Africa and Asia Minor 

 than about the cliff-dwellers of Ari- 

 zona and New Mexico, though the 

 latter were much more ingenious 

 and more amazing in their achieve- 

 ments. 



As it would require more space 

 than there is between the covers of 

 this Magazine merely to index all 

 the places of scenic and historic in- 

 terest in our country, in this article 

 we must content ourselves with 

 mentioning in text and picture only 

 a comparatively few. Remember, 

 that the United States, excluding 

 Alaska, is as big as England, Scot- 

 land, Ireland, France, Germany, 

 Spain, Portugal. Italy. Austria- 

 Hungary, the Balkan States. Swit- 

 zerland, Holland and Belgium, 



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